Röing Marta, Hirsch Jan-Michaél, Holmström Inger, Schuster Marja
University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
Qual Health Res. 2009 Aug;19(8):1076-86. doi: 10.1177/1049732309341192.
When the mouth is affected by cancer, difficulties in satisfying basic human needs such as eating, tasting, swallowing, and speaking might arise, and the existential significance of the mouth might become obvious. How does it feel to live with these difficulties? What does it mean to be a human being living with the consequences of oral cancer? Five patients with oral cancer were interviewed a median time of 4 years after the beginning of treatment. A hermeneutic research approach was used to understand, explain, and interpret the transcribed interviews and showed how the consequences of oral cancer affected the being-in-the-world of the participants in three ways: existing as oneself, existing in the eyes of others, and existing with others. Against the background of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, these findings illuminate how essential the mouth is to a human being's identity and existence.
当口腔受到癌症影响时，可能会出现诸如进食、品尝、吞咽和说话等满足人类基本需求方面的困难，而口腔的存在意义可能会变得明显。带着这些困难生活是什么感觉？作为一名承受口腔癌后果的人意味着什么？对五名口腔癌患者在治疗开始后的中位时间4年进行了访谈。采用诠释学研究方法来理解、解释和阐释转录的访谈内容，结果表明口腔癌的后果如何以三种方式影响参与者的在世存在：作为自身而存在、在他人眼中存在以及与他人一起存在。以马丁·海德格尔的哲学为背景，这些发现阐明了口腔对于人类身份和存在的重要性。
